The sole questions in the poll were the “horse race” question, party registration, age, gender and ethnicity. Public Policy Polling, of Raleigh, NC, conducted the poll. It was an automated telephone survey of 1589 registered voters in FL-8. The margin of error is 2.4%.

LOL. The man is proudly demonstrating on his website the fact that a high-profile incumbent like himself is winning only 40% of the voters in the district. I'm willing to bet 80-90% of those "Others" and "Undecideds" lean Republican (given that close to 45% of Self-identified Republicans apparently aren't yet backing Webster) and will come home for Webster in November. No way Grayson, of all Democrats, is going to win 4-1 among independent voters.

I don't trust this poll at all. 23% other in a race where you would think conservatives and right leaning independents would be jumping at the chance to say they support Grayson's opponent is crazy. Sad to see PPP allowing themselves to be used as an obviously sh**tty internal poll.

If Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida #08) wins re-election, in a Republian Wave election year, it will be another example of Washington, D.C. Democrats having made a fatal mistake of acting like The New Republicans. Most of the losses, in the House, will come from the Blue Dogs. The … "centrists."

If this poll is accurate, does it mean that voters prefer a person who has real principles than one who "becomes" a conservative to be reelected??

It's no shock that voters like pugnacious politicians, something some Republicans, but very few Democrats save Grayson, seem to have learned as a campaign tactic. Further bad news for governance, though, even if one agrees with Grayson.

I've always had a hunch that Grayson would be reelected fairly solidly, although this poll does not appear to prove anything.

If this poll is accurate, does it mean that voters prefer a person who has real principles than one who "becomes" a conservative to be reelected??

See my post above. The Fact that he's actually under-polling by so so much in this district (40% is one of the lowest I've seen for an incumbent Democrat this cycle) suggest that his "lead" comes far more from a fractured opposition than from his own likability or support. Let me make a bet that the 23% in this poll that supports an "Other" candidate aren't referring to the Green party ticket line.

If this poll is accurate, does it mean that voters prefer a person who has real principles than one who "becomes" a conservative to be reelected??

See my post above. The Fact that he's actually under-polling by so so much in this district (40% is one of the lowest I've seen for an incumbent Democrat this cycle) suggest that his "lead" comes far more from a fractured opposition than from his own likability or support. Let me make a bet that the 23% in this poll that supports an "Other" candidate aren't referring to the Green party ticket line.

I'll bet he loses, at best (for him) 45-55 in November.

I think grayson will be reelected. he has the money, and the charisma. and his district is not that conservative.

The poll has 5% going for a random "tea party" candidate. Not gonna happen.

Don't be so sure. This is the only Democratic strategy this cycle that might actually work for them.

When the only strategy that might work for you is affixing the "tea party" label to random dead-in-the-water independents who won't have any such label on the November ballot so as to deflate the numbers of your opponents in internal polls, you know you're in trouble.

I think Grayson's funny - his views are atrocious, but he says some of that stuff that you guys will one day wish he had not. I would almost say re-elect him, but we need every person to pitch in to repeal Obamacare.